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This week, the remaining Challengers leave Costa Rica and head to Buenos Aires, Argentina, which our girl Jenn pronounces “Bwaynos Airies.” We’re down to four guys’ teams and three girls’ teams. I guess that means TJ isn’t living in Mel Gibson‘s house anymore. When you watch this show on MTV.com, there are little popups for each section of the episode, and the one for the first ten minutes is “The cast goes mental in Argentina.” Which is always a good way to start.
Moment That Most Reminded Me of How This Show Used to Be Awesome: The toga party
Remember that one Challenge (I think it was the original Battle of the Seasons) where they got rained in for a couple of days and passed the time by having a toga party/costume contest, and awesome Sharon from Real World: London won? The gang celebrates their last night in Costa Rica with a toga party, but it’s just a sad reminder of how far this show has fallen. Remember when it was The Real World/Road Rules Challenge because they actually had Road Rules? Yeah, I’m old.
Biggest Douche: Johnny
Johnny leads a couple of the other guys in a round of throwing cookies and other shit at Mike while he’s trying to sleep. When Mike understandably gets mad and tells them to quit, Johnny voiceovers that Mike totally lost his mind for no reason. Um, he lost his mind because you’re a stupid ‘roided up bully who likes to pick on people who don’t suck up to you or care about being in your clique, “Johnny Bananas.” Mike is smart and has never attempted to name himself after phallic fruit, so he’s a better man than you’ll ever be.
Best Friend: Leroy
After Mike gets pissed, Leroy calms him down and points out – as my mom once did many moons ago – that the best thing you can do is pretend the bullies aren’t getting to you. Mike then voiceovers that he’s so happy to be doing the Challenge with Leroy and that he lucked out by getting paired with a friend, not a rival.
Best Turnaround: Laurel
I can’t believe the way that this show makes me like people I previously hated. Laurel was awful on the Challenge where Eric (“Big Easy”) passed out during the final challenge and she screamed at him and blamed him for their team losing. It was really gross, and I basically hated her from that point on. But she’s seeming a lot softer and kinder this year. It could be that she saw how she came across before and wanted to change it, it could be that she fell afoul of the alliance and realized what it was like on the other side, or it could just be her love for CT. I mean, his glasses certainly work on me.
Grossest Prank: Wes
This is always a hard award to give out, since there are so many douches on the show, but Wes takes the title this week. But “someone” poops in Cara Maria’s bed, and then Wes dumps a giant bottle of soda on her head. He says that she’s fake and immature, which … have you met yourself, Wes? Also, when Julie peed in Coral’s bed on that one Challenge it was because bitch was completely deranged, whereas you’re just a plain old garden variety douchebag. To quote CT, “Wes is just an arrogant ass who didn’t have a mother to spank his ass when he was little.” Also, Wes is wearing a shirt with embroidery and what might be grommets during this scene. Shut up, Wes.
